Wendy Miller
Building Self-Esteem in the Classroom
Final Project
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson274.shtml
This web site is great for the beginning of the year and for new teachers. It gives insight for establishing classroom rules, consequences and rules of civility from George Washington. It gave ideas for bulletin boards and lessons to help reinforce classroom rules.
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson274.shtml
This site has a plethora of links to promote character building, improving self-esteem and good social skills in the classroom. It features a key article on special education. Focusing on Tourette Syndrome. It offers free teaching guides and resources for ideas, lessons and programs to help with character building.
http://www.goodcharacter.com/index.html
Service Learning in which academic goals are accomplished through community service is what you will find here. It has a program which develops citizenship, responsibility and other positive character traits. It carries a line of videos which demonstrate what students are challenged with and shows examples of how they can be dealt with.
Student oriented site which allows youth to explore ideas of how they can make a difference. It has a variety of ways (volunteering, sharing ideas, starting an organization, and exploring ideas to help humanity) of how kids can help others.
http://character-education.info/resources/lesson_plans_curriculum.htm
This is a fantastic site which provides lessons on teaching positive character traits. The lessons ask questions to inspire the students so they know how to respond using a positive trait and know how to acquire it. It creates an emotional desire to adopt the trait. However, they give you a little bit of the program and then they want you to subscribe to it.
http://www.charactercities.org/gettingstarted/
An international association, which wants to build a “community of character.” This is geared more to adult individuals and families who want to practice what they preach. They promote good character and want to establish a non-profit “character council” where they can bring together community organizations and local government agencies. It is a faith-based organization encouraging individuals to implement good characteristics in their life.
http://www.school-connect.net/aboutus.htm
A costly program which fosters academics, social and emotional competencies, reducing bad behaviors, and facilitating supportive relationships. This program is a national program which prepares a adolescents for adulthood.
http://www.tolerance.org/teens/index.jsp
Here is an interesting site that contains ideas for school events to bring all students together. There are grants that are offered if you have an idea that you would like to implement in your school, you can download posters and enter a poetry contest. November 13, 2007 is Mix it Up day, where all students are to drop their barriers and befriend someone new at lunch. Lots of ideas for promoting diversity and positive characteristics.
http://www.youthwebonline.com/
This is a website where youths can talk to other youths about what is going on in their life and school. It is also a resource where they can report hate crimes or violence.
This is a very serious site for teens that discusses suicide, depression, alcoholism, etc. It has short video clips pertaining to these matters and offers advice and resources you can turn to.
This contains information and links for teens about bullying, dating, predators, racisms. It is very informative and very resourceful.
http://building-self-esteem.eumnby.info/how-to-build-self-esteem/building-self-esteem-among-teens/
This is a blog for parents and teachers discussing self esteem issues. It addresses various aspects of a child’s life and how we as parents/teachers want what is best for them. They are several links that connect you with other resources and discussion opportunities.
http://www.nicolesouter.com/nicole/index.htm
Daily Character Builders is designed to help teachers share with students how different character traits can be developed in a person’s life. The ideas are arranged in a thought for the day format and can be shared in just a few minutes a day.
http://childparenting.about.com/cs/emotionalhealth/a/selfesteem1.htm
Here is a site for parents to work with building their child’s self esteem. It has articles on how to handle poor behavior and when to reward good behavior.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/selfesteem/
This site has a lesson plan that is easy to do and works on building self esteem. The kids use magazines to make a collage of things they like and are good at. Very creative.